The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Smith

Date: 
January 16, 1838

Deceased

Thomas Smith
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that after examining the Body of the sd. Smith they believe that he came to his death by a wound in the throat which appears to have been done by the hand of some person with a knife

Coroner

Coroner: 
Hazzard Hicks
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at George Born's[?]
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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